The Past Few Days Have Been Interesting...

Last Saturday night, I dragged my friend to a salsa class and she enjoyed it but didn’t want to stay out the rest of the night so I ended up staying out by myself. At first it was really awkward…I’m pretty sure I was the only person sitting at a table by myself and all I had to do was drink my bottled water. Every couple of songs, someone asked me to dance, but there weren’t very many people there. Then, however, they started playing bachata (my absolute favorite for anyone who isn’t familiar with my obsession) and the guy I was dancing with and I realized we’d both learned bachata in the Bay Area, where he’s from and where I spent the past year. Then he introduced me to all of his friends, who were English teachers from all over the place. They’re living a few hours south of Seoul and were here visiting for the weekend. I ended up hanging out with them and they invited me to go with them to another salsa club. Obviously I went and had a ton of fun. :) One of the girls met someone there who started dancing with us so, when my new friends left at 2:00 a.m., I still had someone to hang out with. I stayed with him until the club closed at 3:30 and then we hung out in Quizno’s for two hours and talked while we waited for the metro to open to go home. My feet hurt but that was by far the best night I’ve had in Seoul!

Today was a blast but it started off in the weirdest way. Another friend that I met in Italy is here teaching English too and we hadn’t seen each other yet so we decided to meet at an amusement park (we were off work today because it was Korea’s Thanksgiving). I was getting ready to go and I heard a rattling of either my door or my window. At first I thought someone was coming in, but I didn’t know who the hell it could be. I had given my friend, Jacqui, a spare set of keys to my house and I thought maybe it could be her because she was going to the amusement park with me today. But seriously…we were meeting elsewhere and she’s not rude enough to come walking into my house without talking to me first. So I went back to brushing my teeth. The noise continued so I finally turned down my music and started walking to the door to see what it was. Then I heard a man say one of the few words in Korean that I recognize which means “over here.” I looked into my bedroom and, through my window, I saw an older Korean dude standing there. He seemed somewhat concerned about something so I was trying to understand what he was telling me. However, besides the fact that I don’t understand Korean, I had just woken up, had my pants unbuttoned, had a mouthful of toothpaste and had just had the shit scared out of me. After a couple minutes of me trying to figure out what he was talking about and where he was pointing, I pretended I understood so he would go away and he did. I still have no idea what the hell he wanted (the only thing I can think of is that maybe he wanted my music turned down but that couldn’t have been it because it wasn’t even on anymore...and it wasn't very loud to begin with). Anyway, from now on, I’m keeping my window closed when I get ready in the mornings!